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Definition of advance in English: advanceverb ədˈvɑːnsədˈvæns 1no object Move forwards in a purposeful way. he advanced towards the dispatch box the troops advanced on the capital Example sentencesExamples - Scores of officers were involved in the operation and it is believed the man advanced on officers, ignoring warnings to stop, when he was shot.
- Mazzini had not allowed Garibaldi to press home his advantage against the French, and, early in June, Oudinot, strengthened by reinforcements, again advanced on the city.
- One of the burly men went up towards the crowd while the rest advanced on Miguel.
- He stood up aggressively from the sofa and advanced on her.
- An attacker advanced on her while she stood unprotected, with nowhere to run.
- Adam threw the harness he had been mending to the floor, stood up, and advanced on Joe.
- Nikhil stood and advanced on her; she sat still, wondering what it was he was going to do.
- As we advanced on the village of Guiry a runner came up and told us that the Armistice would be signed at eleven o'clock that day, November 11.
- Kady lost no time in planting herself and the flag in the front of the Rhode Island line where she could shout encouragement to the boys as they advanced on the Rebels.
- ‘No,’ Isabelle shook her head as she advanced on the chair's occupant.
- The supporters appeared to listen briefly, but when the match officials headed towards the exit and the crowd advanced on them, the police stepped in.
- The old man stood, and Cale gave ground as the other advanced on him.
- As the allied troops advanced on Paris in March 1814, Daumesnil stood ready to defend his fortress, his city, and his Emperor.
- In the final minute of the match, veteran defender Shuan Dennis saved a certain goal as Darryl Duffy advanced on goal.
- Jean Delsarte's father was the head of a textile factory in Fourmies but in 1914 the German armies advanced on the town and Jean left his home town with all the family, except his father, and fled to safety.
- With perfect balance, she advanced on Aslyn in three long strides.
- She stood and advanced on the murderer of her friend.
- Simba advanced on her and she began to scramble towards the door.
- They advanced on her, but stopped dead in their tracks.
- He advanced on Sophia purposefully, then stopped.
Synonyms move forward, proceed, move along, press on, push on, push forward, make progress, make headway, forge on, forge ahead, gain ground, approach, come closer, move closer, move nearer, draw nearer, near dated draw nigh - 1.1 Move forward in time.
as the nineteenth century advanced Example sentencesExamples - As time advances, technology progresses with it
- In a similar vein, Nora recommends that community colleges advance into the twenty-first century prepared for a diverse student body.
- As the performance advances into the nineteenth century, the paradoxes and ambiguities concerning the nature of absolute music pile up, to considerable dramatic effect.
- However, the type of cataract that occurs with advancing age is generally progressive.
- The biotech century is advancing upon us, moment by moment.
- As the twentieth century advanced, however, other forms of entertainment rapidly took over, and the readership of magazines declined.
- I'm ready to advance into the twenty-first century.
- In other words, Marx and Paine and the rest should have advanced progressively into the future.
- The 20th century advanced, but his compositions remained steeped in the romantic era.
- Both British and Irish parliaments became more relaxed about placing their proceedings in the public domain as the century advanced.
- 1.2with object Change the date of (an event) so as to occur earlier than planned.
I advanced the schedule by several weeks Example sentencesExamples - The election is not due in the State until 2003, but political analysts say the BJP is keen to capitalise on its current lead in the polls by advancing the date.
- But the Election Commission disturbed this apple-cart when it advanced the elections, thus ruining their plan.
- The question is what is the need for advancing the date of elections by a few months.
- Meanwhile, Arthur wants to advance the wedding date, as his father is getting better.
- It would be nice if the government could even advance the scheduled date, just to make its enemies squirm.
Synonyms bring forward, put forward, move forward, make earlier
2Make or cause to make progress. no object our knowledge is advancing all the time with object it was a chance to advance his own interests Example sentencesExamples - These ventures are very important in advancing our knowledge about ourselves and others.
- Discourse is necessary for advancing knowledge.
- He inspired a younger generation of scholars to take the same measured approach to the problem of remaining faithful to the Church while advancing new knowledge.
- It might contain taxonomic or classificatory work, which is worthwhile but not driven by the desire either to advance knowledge or to develop practical solutions.
- It might therefore seem clear, whatever else is the case, that Descartes conceives of knowledge as advancing truth.
- Psychiatrists and others trained in dynamic therapy are well positioned to meet this challenge and to advance our knowledge of the treatment of personality disorder.
- Hm, so you're saying that people are greedy and will do horrible things to advance their own wealth and power?
- Genetic interventions that accelerate or retard aging in mice are crucial in advancing our knowledge over mammalian aging.
- For many academics the recognition they gain by advancing knowledge in their field is sufficient.
- We will not examine the forms of the Greek letters themselves, but it is certainly worth stressing how important this form of writing was to be in advancing knowledge.
- I am a firm believer in sound science, and I believe that the shuttle mission has played a crucial role in advancing our knowledge of the universe we live in.
- But to advance our knowledge such views need to be supported by rigorous analytical reasoning and the dispassionate gathering of cases and data.
- But Lawrence's distinction breaks down in the end, for the telling of tales is also a way that the teller advances his own knowledge of the world.
- From the position of academics it has advanced our knowledge; whether it is useful to the Committee is for them to decide.
- Space exploration and exploitation is a major driving force in advancing the frontiers of knowledge.
- Surely, a division of labor is essential if we are to advance the frontiers of knowledge; we need technical experts focused on specific fields of investigation.
- Only several years later did I realize the important role he played in advancing historical knowledge and interpretation.
- The challenges are not insurmountable, and researchers have done good descriptive work that has advanced knowledge to this point.
- The Defence of Britain project has not only advanced our knowledge, but has also underpinned the conservation of 20th century defensive sites.
- It advanced the knowledge of how to design composite tanks to hold cryogenic fluids.
Synonyms promote, further, forward, help, aid, assist, facilitate, boost, strengthen, improve, make better, benefit, foster, cultivate, encourage, support, back progress, make progress, make headway, develop, improve, become better, thrive, flourish, prosper, mature evolve, make strides, move forward (in leaps and bounds), move ahead, get ahead informal go places, get somewhere - 2.1no object (of shares) increase in price.
the food group advanced 12p to 639p Example sentencesExamples - Three stocks fell for every two that rose on the Big Board, while two declined for every one that advanced on the NASDAQ Stock Market.
- ‘In this environment it is difficult to see how Iona's share price can advance from current levels,’ Dixon said.
- The Stoxx 600 Index added 0.4 percent to 214.37 as four shares advanced for every three that declined.
- All very well if Telecom shares advance in the first week, as is, admittedly, widely expected.
- Advances were outnumbered by declines as nine shares advanced while 14 declined.
- Prices advanced quickly from tens to thousands of dollars.
- The consequence is that metals prices can actually advance most strongly during such a period, as we have been seeing.
- Action's shares advanced 6p to 71p this afternoon on the news.
- The advance/decline ratio was all evened out this month as a total of 12 shares advanced while 12 shares declined.
- Nonetheless, AU Optronics shares advanced 1.35 percent to NT $45.2 on the Taiwan Stock Exchange yesterday.
- The potential for a share to advance usually attracts investors, who are looking for quick profits.
- Oil prices will almost certainly not advance in the next 12 months to the same extent as they have in the past year.
- As the NASDAQ retreated, Leonard Davis' stock advanced.
- Recent data showed industrial output in the US rose in the month of March for the first time in six months and consumer prices advanced at the slowest rate in seven months.
- European stocks advanced after an index of US manufacturing rose more than expected in August, a sign of recovery in the world's largest economy.
- The shares have advanced 32 percent since the end of September.
- In Euro terms, oil prices have hardly advanced from their mid-2000 levels.
- A total of 4 shares advanced while there were 13 declines.
- A total of 15 shares advanced, while there were six declines.
- When a publicly quoted company is surrounded by merger and acquisition speculation, its shares tend to advance in anticipation of a healthy offer price or takeover premium.
3with object Put forward (a theory or suggestion) the hypothesis I wish to advance in this article Example sentencesExamples - In Hinduism many sects advanced their theories about the nature of Reality.
- When I advanced my long-held theory that some of his constituents were living vicariously through his exploits, Wilson readily agreed.
- On behalf of Maria Stanciu, her counsel advances two theories in support of the claim for legal and equitable title.
- What if Einstein had not advanced his theories?
- You might advance theories about lucky timing or mysterious audience chemistry, but Barnett modestly credits a more practical factor.
- Canadian geophysicist J. Tuzo Wilson was also pivotal in advancing the plate-tectonics theory.
- He was a U.S. version of Gandhi, advancing the theory of pacifist resistance through his words and deeds.
- When he called for the establishment of Pakistan, Mohammad Ali Jinnah advanced the two-nation theory.
- I have consistently advanced the theory that there are five basic reasons for which parliaments exist.
- Allow me, therefore, to advance a theory based upon sound research and to propose recommendations sure to bring about a substantial reduction in these criminal acts.
- Subversive books, including those advancing the theories of Newton and Copernicus, were removed from the university's library.
- However, contemporary coherence theorists respond that they are advancing a theory of justification, not truth.
- It discusses the theory advanced by John Rawls that authority is legitimate if and only if it acts in accord with principles the subjects agree to.
- The theory advanced by her counsel was that she was not morally responsible, but what they had to decide was whether she was legally responsible for the deed.
- Thomas Frank has advanced this theory in a book entitled What's the Matter with Kansas?
- Over the past few years, there has been an upsurge in student violence in T & T. Many have advanced theories as to how this menace can be solved.
- But lack of concrete evidence will not stop would-be decipherers from advancing theories and interpretations.
- Sammy doesn't discount that contention, but he advances another theory.
- Frank has been making the rounds, advancing a theory that I believe is not without merit.
- The theory was advanced in the 1980s by Alan Harvey Guth and was elaborated upon by Paul Steinhardt, Andrei Linde, and Andreas Albrecht.
Synonyms put forward, present, come up with, submit, suggest, propose, introduce, put up, offer, proffer, adduce, moot 4with two objects Lend (money) to (someone) the building society advanced them a loan Example sentencesExamples - The capitalists advance money to the producers, who then use it for buying means of production and for paying wages.
- You require Dairywise Limited to advance money to you in the amount of £7, 000.00
- A lender who advanced money to its customers on this basis would be out of business fast once the economy worsened.
- Moreover, if the bank had not advanced the money to the council, it would have employed the money on similar terms in its own business.
- It advanced money to the plaintiffs for which it was not fully repaid.
- The bank advances funds to you in exchange for the right to collect that amount from income streams due to the business from debtors.
- That loan guarantee allowed the co-op's bank to advance it more money to reconfigure the plant.
- As the farmers' loan repayment problems mounted, how were they to convince the banks to advance additional money to allow them buy more cattle and keep their farms working?
- She said that if the council advanced the money as a loan, it would get around the legal difficulties.
- The moneys were advanced by the parents to their son and his wife in order to help them out.
- Secondly, under the Housing Act 1985 the Secretary of State may advance money to recognized lending institutions to enable them to grant loans to first-home purchasers.
- The expenses are alleged to have been incurred in advancing money to the company in order to finance an increase by that company of its shareholding in an Italian television network.
- Significantly, Western banks have advanced a syndicated loan to the country on which interest will be paid.
- The money advanced by the institution to Mrs Wilson was in its possession.
- The money was advanced to his Jersey bank account and much later forwarded to an account in Dublin.
- As Mr Lawson points out, the intermediate bank was never at risk because it never advanced money to the company until it was paid by the group.
- A director's loan arises when a director advances money to or draws money out of a company.
- The locally-managed Urban Co-operative Bank advances loans in millions to the needy sections which predominantly include non-Navayaths and the Hindus.
- If this chap comes looking for work by all means give him a job but be warned: be careful not to advance any money to him.
- He directed Mr Staume to record all money advanced to him as loans.
Synonyms lend, loan, credit, pay in advance, supply on credit pay out, put up, come up with, contribute, give, donate, hand over informal dish out, shell out, fork out, cough up British informal sub - 4.1 Pay (money) to (someone) before it is due.
he advanced me a month's salary Example sentencesExamples - Giselle could hear Elaine pleading with her father to advance her allowance one month so that she could purchase some outfits.
- The reconciliation is needed to make sure the money advanced has been properly spent.
- At the company's office, I was shown a spreadsheet for a hypothetical client who had been advanced $8,500 in cash over six months.
- Then, not long ago, Elektra balked at advancing money for Ween to record a new album.
- Record companies advance money for recording costs and provide limited marketing services for the music that artists conceive and create.
- All of the money advanced by the record company to the act has to be paid back by the act from it's small percentage of the CD returns.
Synonyms spend, expend, pay, lay out, put up, part with, hand over, remit, furnish, supply, disburse, contribute, give, donate, invest, advance, pledge
noun ədˈvɑːnsədˈvæns 1A forward movement. the rebels' advance on Madrid was well under way figurative the advance of civilization Example sentencesExamples - The lack of organic or attached infantry makes it difficult for a troop to hold ground or defend against an enemy advance.
- Haig has been criticised by some for his belief in the simple advance of infantry troops on enemy lines.
- The mortar can also be mounted in a vehicle, firing through the roof hatch, to keep pace with a mechanised advance.
- The sensors provide early warning of the advance of enemy troops and vehicles.
- The advance of the Red Army into eastern Europe produced a different outcome there.
- The telltale clink of tracks heralds the advance of a brigade combat team.
- For the first time during the Great Patriotic War, it was decided to use mobile obstacle construction detachments to support the advance of tank corps.
- Security elements must check out all suspected ambush areas prior to the advance of the main element.
- With Moltke's approval, he therefore deflected his line of advance to the south-east of Paris.
- After the position was organized, he led an assault approximately 15 yards from the final objective, when enemy fire halted the advance.
- Strategy and tactics were based on easily coordinated and controlled movements - advances, encirclements, or envelopments.
- He said the squadron trained in the usual cavalry tasks such as advances, convoy escort, route reconnaissance, clearance ops and VCPs.
- And since the arrival of the British troops the number of UN peace keepers in Sierra Leone has doubled to 11,000, and the rebel advance has been turned into retreat.
- The lines of advance for combined units and units should be selected with the idea to first of all capture the objectives on which the stability of defense hinges.
- After weeks of dreadful anticipation, a rebel militia advances against government forces.
- The Germans had decided to make Warsaw a fortress city which would be defended at all costs in an effort to stem the advance of the Red Army.
- The Chin army began a systematic advance at the same moment that their retreating chariots wheeled and fell on the Tzu-hsi's exposed flanks.
- This was a unique terrain for warfare, where rapid advances and swift movements of armies were extremely difficult.
- Everyone knew tomorrow's mission involved an armored advance against possible heavy enemy defenses.
- Emirs and sheiks along the Mongols' line of advance came and did homage.
Synonyms progress, headway, moving forward, forward movement approach, nearing, coming, arrival 2A development or improvement. advances in engineering techniques mass noun decades of great scientific advance Example sentencesExamples - That scientific breakthrough enabled advances in tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment which have now saved millions of lives.
- Due to scientific advances in DNA, there is now the opportunity to minimise the detainment of an innocent person.
- Scientific advances in diagnostic tools make it possible for experts to identify new diseases more quickly than anyone could have done in the past.
- It concluded, ‘Put simply, clinical research has not kept pace with the advances in basic scientific discovery and this disadvantages patients.’
- We can look forward to further developments and advances in the future.
- There have been striking advances in plant developmental biology in recent times, and some unique and important features have emerged.
- First, there were the relatively recent advances in the development of wildlife management as a scientific discipline in its own right.
- "It may not be 100 per cent proof, but advances in technology have improved its accuracy.
- The latest developments are propelled by advances in laser technology.
- Our aim is to ensure that these services are readily accessible through use of the latest developments and advances in technology.
- Recent advances in developmental biology clearly validate the expectation that we will be able to answer such questions in the near future.
- The development has implications for advances in lithographic techniques.
- It failed to react quickly to international developments and advances in relevant fields.
- It has a special significance, too, for my brother and I who basically marked our childhood development by advances in video game technology.
- A general comment is that this decade, we have had major advances in understanding the immune system and major advances in developing medication.
- Drug delivery systems are needed to exploit many of the drugs developed from advances in molecular biology.
- But only recent advances in scientific dating techniques, the latest using accelerator mass spectrometry, have enabled their true antiquity to be revealed.
- However, huge advances in the development of anti-depressants coupled with greater understanding of the cause of depression are a cause for optimism, he said.
- In the developed world, advances in technology and construction mean that natural phenomena rarely wreak havoc, except when there are especially bad floods, hurricanes, or quakes.
- The options to start a family have been improved through recent advances in technology.
Synonyms breakthrough, development, step forward, step in the right direction, leap, quantum leap, find, finding, discovery, invention, success headway, progress, advancement, evolution, improvement, betterment, furtherance - 2.1 An increase in amount or price.
share prices showed significant advances Example sentencesExamples - Another piece of information that I can share with you on my seasonal gold work has to do with the price advances of the seasonal cycle.
- The advance in prices increased both government expenditures and debt.
- Looking back, we now understand how the system was working: honest companies posted moderate growth and moderate stock price advances.
- Ultimately they brought out enough nuts to put the market in an oversupply position and the price advance came to a screeching halt and slowly but surely the market started to inch its way down.
- The mere laborer has thus no more interest in the general advance of productive power than the Cuban slave had in the advance in the price of sugar.
- As our chart shows, the big advance in stock prices came about in the last quarter of the twentieth century - but that period is unique and, possibly, the exception rather than the rule.
- Animal carcass weights also indicate advances, with the increase in size of lambs and calves the best indicators of productivity improvements.
Synonyms increase, rise, upturn, upsurge, upswing, growth, boom, boost, elevation, escalation, augmentation informal hike
3An amount of money paid before it is due or for work only partly completed. the author was paid a £250,000 advance Example sentencesExamples - If you receive a bonus payment, which is essentially an advance on your royalties, that will be separate property.
- In order to help him complete the book in a more relevant time frame, his advance has been increased.
- Can they get an advance on their pay and turn in the rent money?
- It is approaching six figures, including the advance on my new book.
- People could gamble without panicking and planning to re-mortgage their home, or dashing out to get an advance on their paycheck from the corner money store.
- He has even taken advances on his salary, and loans just to make ends meet.
- It was the first property he owned and characteristically he bought it with borrowed money, half the purchase price coming from an advance paid by his publisher for a poem of which he hadn't yet written a line.
- I've just got a good advance on a book, my first income for three months.
- After spending a night in jail, he had managed to find a job moving boxes at a local warehouse, and had been able to convince the foreman into an advance on his first paycheck so he could secure a place to live.
- Most authors are paid an advance on royalties, but never make much, if anything, on actual royalties because the sales of the book never add up that far.
- The advance on a book, except for a few hundred authors internationally, tends to be not very much.
- She received a fair advance on the books - £250,000, people say.
- During meetings he was often a bit drunk, and afterwards in Paris I saw him come to their apartment for an advance on the travel money due him, red-eyed, with a three-day beard.
- University presses still compete for many monographs, including revised dissertations, and, contrary to this belief, they pay advances for a significant number of them.
- In many cases a child is sold into slavery as a result of a labor contract that his or her parents have signed into or in exchange for a sum of money that is often described as an advance on wages.
- A man can lose a contract from publishers by spending their advance on finishing a book for another publisher.
- In return for an advance on future royalties, the IPC demanded an expansion of the territories under concession from 192 to 35,000 square miles.
- I spent my book advance on a motorboat and about two months later it blew up.
- The next morning Nataraj asked for an advance on his salary to buy rice, and kerosene for the little stove we provide. I gave it to him.
- As I recall, he was in a similar situation and was forced, because of the House ethics rules, to not end up accepting the advance on the book.
- It might entail giving an artist an advance on anticipated sales from either a forthcoming exhibition, or for works directly from the artist's studio.
Synonyms down payment, advance against royalty, deposit, retainer, prepayment, front money, money up front - 3.1 A loan.
Example sentencesExamples - Disbursal of advances, particularly house and car loans, appears to have become a priority for bankers, who are now willing to reach out to public more aggressively.
- With regard to the $62,000 advance, both she and her mother are adamant that the advance was a loan to the couple to enable their purchase of the matrimonial home.
- We will be running a very small deficit, much of which will be used to finance such things as, for example, student loan advances, which are an asset in terms of net debt.
- All other conditions to the loan advance have been, or will in the ordinary course be met.
- Because its revenues do not cover all its costs, the utility has had to obtain working capital from short-term bank advances.
- Total assets increased by $5.2 billion or 16 per cent due principally to strong growth in loans and advances.
- The relationship between those two companies was one of support in terms of loan advances, right throughout the history of that 20 year operation.
- Against that background, the jury ought to have been directed that, unless satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that the advances were not loans, the appellant was entitled to be acquitted.
- Whereas a standard home loan depends on your earnings, a buy-to-let advance is based on rental potential.
- It was a Motion for the Senate to approve that the Minister for Finance borrow by means of advances, sums not exceeding $25 million from commercial banks.
- Included in Lay's figures is a whopping $81.5 million in loan advances, which were mostly repaid in stock, and which are worth next to nothing today.
- In practice the conveyance, the creation of the mortgage and the payment over of the mortgage advance will all have to take place on the same day.
- It was stressed that the decision to close the agency will have no impact on terms and conditions of savings accounts, current accounts, mortgages or advances held by customers.
- For smaller loans, credit unions may be happy to make advances, but only after you have built up an acceptable level of savings with the organisation.
- In the case of most loans to consumers, and for smaller commercial loans, the advance is usually credited forthwith to the borrower's current account and stands at his disposal at any time.
- This enables borrowers to get 90% of their mortgage delivered as a cash advance - a major bonus when you need to splash out on land and materials.
- The bank's loan and advances portfolio registered 42 per cent growth, reaching the level of K79.55 billion.
- Day after day, my wife and I receive unsolicited offers for credit cards, home equity loans and cash advances.
- The report only considers further advances on existing mortgages taken out to release equity and secured personal loans.
- The financial sector has also borrowed $437 billion of ‘other loans and advances.’
4usually advancesAn approach made to someone with the aim of initiating sexual or amorous relations. her tutor made advances to her Example sentencesExamples - The California Fair Employment and Housing Act defines unwelcome sexual advances of an employer toward an employee of the same sex as unlawful sexual harassment.
- But during his trial, he claimed after he picked up the young woman she made advances to him.
- Later, however, there's a brief, uncomfortable scene where Liza goes on a date with Harvey and he rejects her sexual advances.
- Some of the men reportedly made indecent advances to women Navy officers staying at the same hotel.
- She has also claimed to gardaí that during her time at the school, the teacher made advances to one of her friends, who managed to get away.
- The pair have bonded as friends, after he snubbed her amorous advances.
- I chuckled, that was just the kind of answer Caitlyn would give me each time I tried to make an advance on her.
- Gawain is visited by the lord's wife again; they exchange courtly words again all morning, Gawain parries her ever more forward advances.
- At times, workers are exposed to sexual comments or advances on the part of a client or family member.
- Although only 20 years old, Hope has already started making amorous advances to Cathay.
- They may also have the expectation that alcohol makes it easier to make sexual advances, and thus they may use alcohol intentionally for achieving such a purpose.
- Therefore, rejections of sexual advances may be seen as inappropriate and may be ignored.
- When she became 16, she declared her detestation of him and said that he had again made advances to her.
- The man told a Los Angeles jury that he never made advances to the woman, 36, who once ran his West Coast office.
- Being such an immature age, he also succumbed to the advances of other women while he was away, which ended the marriage after just two years.
- We also had retraining, if that's the word, in sexual and social behaviours because many of these people appeared, at least to us, to be deficient in making sexual advances to women.
- When two men pulled up in a station wagon, the girls rebuffed their sexual advances.
- According to the report, at least eight patients alleged he made sexual advances towards them over two decades from 1969.
- Meanwhile, an alarming new survey by the University of Huddersfield has shown that more than one in five children have been the victim of unwanted sexual advances outside their home.
- Dr Langton said it was against medical ethical principles for a doctor to make sexual advances towards a patient.
Synonyms sexual approaches, overtures, moves a pass, proposal, proposition, offer, suggestion, appeal informal come-on
adjective ədˈvɑːnsədˈvæns attributive Done, sent, or supplied beforehand. Example sentencesExamples - The above paragraph, by the way, is written in a week when a leading publisher announced an advance payment of 500,000 to a previously unpublished author.
- I could send you an advance version of the book, and you could do a review or a related article.
- But they also have the effect of preventing the customer from getting the loan quickly, especially since the charge document has to be complete in all respects before the advance copy is sent.
- Motorists and residents will be given advance notice and more information nearer the time.
- For those who've asked for advance notice, I'll be on the Lehrer News Hour Tuesday evening.
- Be prepared to supply the speakers' advance staff with a list of briefing attendees several days before the session.
- These regulations should be extended to cover all insurances with advance notice of 10 weeks minimum applying.
- These entries in the race would find advance supplies along their routes, including guaranteed petrol caches.
- Most taxpayers who were eligible for the advance payment received a notice from the taxation office shortly before they got their check.
- Art theft was a serious business for Hitler: even before occupying Holland, he sent an advance team to identify the most desirable collections.
- And obviously, with an earthquake, you do not get advance notice.
- He was one of the first Indian publishers to send books abroad without asking for advance payment.
- Did you send an advance group to take care of you once you arrive?
- He just sent me an advance copy of the second black and white Annual.
- It will use advance passenger information supplied by airlines before their arrival ‘to screen and record individuals as they enter and leave the UK’.
- A number of advance copies were sent to the Jesuits at La Flèche, but with little result.
- Britain had to give advance notice of the questions it wanted to ask.
- He gave me advance notice that he was coming back to London, which he did last week - but I only found out last Sunday.
- Or did the author send the manuscript or advance copies to select friends and admirers with a request for some publicity?
- Global Volunteers does not, as a matter of course, send community hosts advance checks for supplies.
Synonyms preliminary, leading, forward, foremost, at the fore, sent (on) ahead, first, exploratory, explorative, pilot, vanguard, test, trial early, previous, prior, beforehand
Phrases you need to book weeks in advance Example sentencesExamples - Some free or cheap accommodation will be available to people booking in advance.
- A range of massage and other treatments can be booked in advance for an extra charge.
- If you know what you are going to buy in advance, ring ahead to check availability.
- I had the impression that guest speaking gigs at Harvard were booked well in advance.
- It could take half an hour to reach this temperature, so do it well in advance.
- So popular has it proved that you have to book days in advance to be sure of getting in.
- I said he should come and stay but warned him to make sure he booked far in advance.
- The fares must include two nights or a Saturday night and be booked seven days in advance.
- Those lucky enough to be able to book well in advance can dive at the Island of Cabrera.
- Book a taxi home well in advance as this is the busiest time of year for taxi drivers.
- The salad can be prepared hours in advance and the champagne poured over just before serving.
- The travel agent told me that there are only so many cheap seats, and you have to book well in advance to get one.
- If booking things weeks in advance is the only way to get in, that's what we do.
- Space for bicycles is limited on Scotrail trains, and so book a place in advance.
- Owners book their dogs into the hotel in advance for anything from half a day to full-time.
- Postal votes have been available in the town before, but voters had to apply in advance.
- You are advised to book in advance or turn up early because tickets sell-out quickly.
- That'll teach us to be the only people in Dallas who bothered to book a table in advance and order a meal.
- Hardwick airfield is on private property, so you need to arrange your visit in advance.
- Fifteen is one of the most sought after venues in the capital and is booked up months in advance.
Synonyms beforehand, before, ahead of time, earlier, previously, in readiness
we went on ahead in advance of the main group Example sentencesExamples - Now, if you feel strongly enough about it, you can be in advance of trends once you have your own home and responsibility for it.
- Swindon will make the transfer next month well in advance of the national deadline of January 1.
- We would use the current weakness to build a position in advance of a recovery in passenger numbers in 2006.
- There have been a string of similar stories that have exploded in advance of honours proclamations in recent years.
- The album will be on sale at the gig, with a limited edition CD cover in advance of the real packaging early next year.
- Modern logic is far in advance of the logic of Aristotle and has overcome some of the limitations.
- One of her cheap tricks is to bring out your review two weeks in advance of publication.
- In relation to the latter, it was decided to complete all developments in advance of the opening.
- However, he confirmed that negotiations in advance of May 21's crunch vote had taken place.
- Ask for the report to be in your hands well in advance of the sale.
- A party was held at the home yesterday in advance of her birthday, and her family were taking her out for dinner tonight.
- First Minister, you asked for a briefing note in advance of meetings with your ministerial team.
- Please note all items should be sent well in advance of date of publication.
- Try to start making childcare arrangements well in advance of when you need them.
- Several practice sessions will run in advance of two qualifying sessions to set the grid for the first two races.
- This evening I'm off to the final dress rehearsal in advance of tomorrows grand finale.
- The effect, however, is often to gag councillors from speaking out in advance of a planning committee.
- It will also ease existing legal barriers to a newspaper apologising in advance of legal action.
- Volunteers have then been given the necessary training to use the machines in advance of an ambulance arriving.
- According to Football League rules, a club has to apply some four weeks in advance of the fixture to change its date.
Synonyms before, until, till, up to, previous to, earlier than, preceding, leading up to, in advance of, ahead of, ante-, pre-
Derivatives noun On the New York Stock Exchange, decliners beat advancers by 9-to - 7 as 980m shares changed hands. Example sentencesExamples - Gulliver travels to the other side of the Academy where the advancers of speculative learning reside, and meets a professor who explains their method of learning.
- To complicate issues further, one of the two advancers in the group has the unenviable task of facing the other tournament favourite, France, in the second round.
- By 1.30 pm only one billion shares had traded in FTSE stocks, with advancers outweighing decliners by three-to-one on the main index.
Origin Middle English: from Old French avance (noun), avancer (verb), from late Latin abante 'in front', from ab 'from' + ante 'before'. The initial a- was erroneously assimilated to ad- in the 16th century. Rhymes Afrikaans, à outrance, chance, dance, enhance, entrance, faience, France, glance, lance, mischance, outdance, perchance, prance, Provence, stance, trance Definition of advance in US English: advanceverbədˈvansədˈvæns 1no object Move forward in a purposeful way. the troops advanced on the capital she stood up and advanced toward him Example sentencesExamples - He stood up aggressively from the sofa and advanced on her.
- They advanced on her, but stopped dead in their tracks.
- She stood and advanced on the murderer of her friend.
- As we advanced on the village of Guiry a runner came up and told us that the Armistice would be signed at eleven o'clock that day, November 11.
- With perfect balance, she advanced on Aslyn in three long strides.
- Scores of officers were involved in the operation and it is believed the man advanced on officers, ignoring warnings to stop, when he was shot.
- Nikhil stood and advanced on her; she sat still, wondering what it was he was going to do.
- Adam threw the harness he had been mending to the floor, stood up, and advanced on Joe.
- Simba advanced on her and she began to scramble towards the door.
- One of the burly men went up towards the crowd while the rest advanced on Miguel.
- As the allied troops advanced on Paris in March 1814, Daumesnil stood ready to defend his fortress, his city, and his Emperor.
- ‘No,’ Isabelle shook her head as she advanced on the chair's occupant.
- In the final minute of the match, veteran defender Shuan Dennis saved a certain goal as Darryl Duffy advanced on goal.
- Mazzini had not allowed Garibaldi to press home his advantage against the French, and, early in June, Oudinot, strengthened by reinforcements, again advanced on the city.
- Jean Delsarte's father was the head of a textile factory in Fourmies but in 1914 the German armies advanced on the town and Jean left his home town with all the family, except his father, and fled to safety.
- The supporters appeared to listen briefly, but when the match officials headed towards the exit and the crowd advanced on them, the police stepped in.
- Kady lost no time in planting herself and the flag in the front of the Rhode Island line where she could shout encouragement to the boys as they advanced on the Rebels.
- The old man stood, and Cale gave ground as the other advanced on him.
- He advanced on Sophia purposefully, then stopped.
- An attacker advanced on her while she stood unprotected, with nowhere to run.
Synonyms move forward, proceed, move along, press on, push on, push forward, make progress, make headway, forge on, forge ahead, gain ground, approach, come closer, move closer, move nearer, draw nearer, near - 1.1with object Cause (an event) to occur at an earlier date than planned.
I advanced the date of the meeting by several weeks Example sentencesExamples - But the Election Commission disturbed this apple-cart when it advanced the elections, thus ruining their plan.
- The question is what is the need for advancing the date of elections by a few months.
- It would be nice if the government could even advance the scheduled date, just to make its enemies squirm.
- The election is not due in the State until 2003, but political analysts say the BJP is keen to capitalise on its current lead in the polls by advancing the date.
- Meanwhile, Arthur wants to advance the wedding date, as his father is getting better.
Synonyms bring forward, put forward, move forward, make earlier
2Make or cause to make progress. no object our knowledge is advancing all the time with object it was a chance to advance his own interests Example sentencesExamples - I am a firm believer in sound science, and I believe that the shuttle mission has played a crucial role in advancing our knowledge of the universe we live in.
- Surely, a division of labor is essential if we are to advance the frontiers of knowledge; we need technical experts focused on specific fields of investigation.
- It might therefore seem clear, whatever else is the case, that Descartes conceives of knowledge as advancing truth.
- It advanced the knowledge of how to design composite tanks to hold cryogenic fluids.
- The challenges are not insurmountable, and researchers have done good descriptive work that has advanced knowledge to this point.
- Discourse is necessary for advancing knowledge.
- The Defence of Britain project has not only advanced our knowledge, but has also underpinned the conservation of 20th century defensive sites.
- From the position of academics it has advanced our knowledge; whether it is useful to the Committee is for them to decide.
- For many academics the recognition they gain by advancing knowledge in their field is sufficient.
- We will not examine the forms of the Greek letters themselves, but it is certainly worth stressing how important this form of writing was to be in advancing knowledge.
- It might contain taxonomic or classificatory work, which is worthwhile but not driven by the desire either to advance knowledge or to develop practical solutions.
- These ventures are very important in advancing our knowledge about ourselves and others.
- But Lawrence's distinction breaks down in the end, for the telling of tales is also a way that the teller advances his own knowledge of the world.
- Genetic interventions that accelerate or retard aging in mice are crucial in advancing our knowledge over mammalian aging.
- Only several years later did I realize the important role he played in advancing historical knowledge and interpretation.
- Hm, so you're saying that people are greedy and will do horrible things to advance their own wealth and power?
- Psychiatrists and others trained in dynamic therapy are well positioned to meet this challenge and to advance our knowledge of the treatment of personality disorder.
- He inspired a younger generation of scholars to take the same measured approach to the problem of remaining faithful to the Church while advancing new knowledge.
- Space exploration and exploitation is a major driving force in advancing the frontiers of knowledge.
- But to advance our knowledge such views need to be supported by rigorous analytical reasoning and the dispassionate gathering of cases and data.
Synonyms promote, further, forward, help, aid, assist, facilitate, boost, strengthen, improve, make better, benefit, foster, cultivate, encourage, support, back progress, make progress, make headway, develop, improve, become better, thrive, flourish, prosper, mature - 2.1no object (especially of shares of stock) increase in price.
two stocks advanced for every one that fell Example sentencesExamples - When a publicly quoted company is surrounded by merger and acquisition speculation, its shares tend to advance in anticipation of a healthy offer price or takeover premium.
- The consequence is that metals prices can actually advance most strongly during such a period, as we have been seeing.
- ‘In this environment it is difficult to see how Iona's share price can advance from current levels,’ Dixon said.
- In Euro terms, oil prices have hardly advanced from their mid-2000 levels.
- Recent data showed industrial output in the US rose in the month of March for the first time in six months and consumer prices advanced at the slowest rate in seven months.
- All very well if Telecom shares advance in the first week, as is, admittedly, widely expected.
- Prices advanced quickly from tens to thousands of dollars.
- Advances were outnumbered by declines as nine shares advanced while 14 declined.
- Action's shares advanced 6p to 71p this afternoon on the news.
- The Stoxx 600 Index added 0.4 percent to 214.37 as four shares advanced for every three that declined.
- Three stocks fell for every two that rose on the Big Board, while two declined for every one that advanced on the NASDAQ Stock Market.
- The potential for a share to advance usually attracts investors, who are looking for quick profits.
- European stocks advanced after an index of US manufacturing rose more than expected in August, a sign of recovery in the world's largest economy.
- As the NASDAQ retreated, Leonard Davis' stock advanced.
- A total of 4 shares advanced while there were 13 declines.
- A total of 15 shares advanced, while there were six declines.
- Oil prices will almost certainly not advance in the next 12 months to the same extent as they have in the past year.
- The shares have advanced 32 percent since the end of September.
- The advance/decline ratio was all evened out this month as a total of 12 shares advanced while 12 shares declined.
- Nonetheless, AU Optronics shares advanced 1.35 percent to NT $45.2 on the Taiwan Stock Exchange yesterday.
3with object Put forward (a theory or suggestion) the hypothesis I wish to advance in this article Example sentencesExamples - It discusses the theory advanced by John Rawls that authority is legitimate if and only if it acts in accord with principles the subjects agree to.
- Frank has been making the rounds, advancing a theory that I believe is not without merit.
- The theory was advanced in the 1980s by Alan Harvey Guth and was elaborated upon by Paul Steinhardt, Andrei Linde, and Andreas Albrecht.
- Sammy doesn't discount that contention, but he advances another theory.
- When I advanced my long-held theory that some of his constituents were living vicariously through his exploits, Wilson readily agreed.
- He was a U.S. version of Gandhi, advancing the theory of pacifist resistance through his words and deeds.
- But lack of concrete evidence will not stop would-be decipherers from advancing theories and interpretations.
- Allow me, therefore, to advance a theory based upon sound research and to propose recommendations sure to bring about a substantial reduction in these criminal acts.
- When he called for the establishment of Pakistan, Mohammad Ali Jinnah advanced the two-nation theory.
- However, contemporary coherence theorists respond that they are advancing a theory of justification, not truth.
- Thomas Frank has advanced this theory in a book entitled What's the Matter with Kansas?
- I have consistently advanced the theory that there are five basic reasons for which parliaments exist.
- Canadian geophysicist J. Tuzo Wilson was also pivotal in advancing the plate-tectonics theory.
- On behalf of Maria Stanciu, her counsel advances two theories in support of the claim for legal and equitable title.
- You might advance theories about lucky timing or mysterious audience chemistry, but Barnett modestly credits a more practical factor.
- The theory advanced by her counsel was that she was not morally responsible, but what they had to decide was whether she was legally responsible for the deed.
- Over the past few years, there has been an upsurge in student violence in T & T. Many have advanced theories as to how this menace can be solved.
- In Hinduism many sects advanced their theories about the nature of Reality.
- What if Einstein had not advanced his theories?
- Subversive books, including those advancing the theories of Newton and Copernicus, were removed from the university's library.
Synonyms put forward, present, come up with, submit, suggest, propose, introduce, put up, offer, proffer, adduce, moot 4with two objects Lend (money) to (someone) the bank advanced them a loan Example sentencesExamples - The locally-managed Urban Co-operative Bank advances loans in millions to the needy sections which predominantly include non-Navayaths and the Hindus.
- She said that if the council advanced the money as a loan, it would get around the legal difficulties.
- As the farmers' loan repayment problems mounted, how were they to convince the banks to advance additional money to allow them buy more cattle and keep their farms working?
- As Mr Lawson points out, the intermediate bank was never at risk because it never advanced money to the company until it was paid by the group.
- The money advanced by the institution to Mrs Wilson was in its possession.
- He directed Mr Staume to record all money advanced to him as loans.
- You require Dairywise Limited to advance money to you in the amount of £7, 000.00
- The moneys were advanced by the parents to their son and his wife in order to help them out.
- Secondly, under the Housing Act 1985 the Secretary of State may advance money to recognized lending institutions to enable them to grant loans to first-home purchasers.
- The bank advances funds to you in exchange for the right to collect that amount from income streams due to the business from debtors.
- The capitalists advance money to the producers, who then use it for buying means of production and for paying wages.
- It advanced money to the plaintiffs for which it was not fully repaid.
- If this chap comes looking for work by all means give him a job but be warned: be careful not to advance any money to him.
- A lender who advanced money to its customers on this basis would be out of business fast once the economy worsened.
- A director's loan arises when a director advances money to or draws money out of a company.
- The expenses are alleged to have been incurred in advancing money to the company in order to finance an increase by that company of its shareholding in an Italian television network.
- That loan guarantee allowed the co-op's bank to advance it more money to reconfigure the plant.
- Significantly, Western banks have advanced a syndicated loan to the country on which interest will be paid.
- The money was advanced to his Jersey bank account and much later forwarded to an account in Dublin.
- Moreover, if the bank had not advanced the money to the council, it would have employed the money on similar terms in its own business.
Synonyms lend, loan, credit, pay in advance, supply on credit - 4.1 Pay (money) to (someone) before it is due.
he advanced me a month's salary Example sentencesExamples - The reconciliation is needed to make sure the money advanced has been properly spent.
- All of the money advanced by the record company to the act has to be paid back by the act from it's small percentage of the CD returns.
- Record companies advance money for recording costs and provide limited marketing services for the music that artists conceive and create.
- Giselle could hear Elaine pleading with her father to advance her allowance one month so that she could purchase some outfits.
- At the company's office, I was shown a spreadsheet for a hypothetical client who had been advanced $8,500 in cash over six months.
- Then, not long ago, Elektra balked at advancing money for Ween to record a new album.
Synonyms spend, expend, pay, lay out, put up, part with, hand over, remit, furnish, supply, disburse, contribute, give, donate, invest, advance, pledge
nounədˈvansədˈvæns 1A forward movement. the rebels' advance on Madrid was well under way figurative the advance of civilization Example sentencesExamples - The Chin army began a systematic advance at the same moment that their retreating chariots wheeled and fell on the Tzu-hsi's exposed flanks.
- After weeks of dreadful anticipation, a rebel militia advances against government forces.
- And since the arrival of the British troops the number of UN peace keepers in Sierra Leone has doubled to 11,000, and the rebel advance has been turned into retreat.
- The lines of advance for combined units and units should be selected with the idea to first of all capture the objectives on which the stability of defense hinges.
- For the first time during the Great Patriotic War, it was decided to use mobile obstacle construction detachments to support the advance of tank corps.
- With Moltke's approval, he therefore deflected his line of advance to the south-east of Paris.
- The advance of the Red Army into eastern Europe produced a different outcome there.
- The mortar can also be mounted in a vehicle, firing through the roof hatch, to keep pace with a mechanised advance.
- Emirs and sheiks along the Mongols' line of advance came and did homage.
- The Germans had decided to make Warsaw a fortress city which would be defended at all costs in an effort to stem the advance of the Red Army.
- Everyone knew tomorrow's mission involved an armored advance against possible heavy enemy defenses.
- This was a unique terrain for warfare, where rapid advances and swift movements of armies were extremely difficult.
- Strategy and tactics were based on easily coordinated and controlled movements - advances, encirclements, or envelopments.
- The sensors provide early warning of the advance of enemy troops and vehicles.
- After the position was organized, he led an assault approximately 15 yards from the final objective, when enemy fire halted the advance.
- He said the squadron trained in the usual cavalry tasks such as advances, convoy escort, route reconnaissance, clearance ops and VCPs.
- The lack of organic or attached infantry makes it difficult for a troop to hold ground or defend against an enemy advance.
- Security elements must check out all suspected ambush areas prior to the advance of the main element.
- The telltale clink of tracks heralds the advance of a brigade combat team.
- Haig has been criticised by some for his belief in the simple advance of infantry troops on enemy lines.
Synonyms progress, headway, moving forward, forward movement 2A development or improvement. genuine advances in engineering techniques decades of great scientific advance Example sentencesExamples - In the developed world, advances in technology and construction mean that natural phenomena rarely wreak havoc, except when there are especially bad floods, hurricanes, or quakes.
- A general comment is that this decade, we have had major advances in understanding the immune system and major advances in developing medication.
- We can look forward to further developments and advances in the future.
- However, huge advances in the development of anti-depressants coupled with greater understanding of the cause of depression are a cause for optimism, he said.
- Due to scientific advances in DNA, there is now the opportunity to minimise the detainment of an innocent person.
- The options to start a family have been improved through recent advances in technology.
- "It may not be 100 per cent proof, but advances in technology have improved its accuracy.
- But only recent advances in scientific dating techniques, the latest using accelerator mass spectrometry, have enabled their true antiquity to be revealed.
- It concluded, ‘Put simply, clinical research has not kept pace with the advances in basic scientific discovery and this disadvantages patients.’
- First, there were the relatively recent advances in the development of wildlife management as a scientific discipline in its own right.
- Recent advances in developmental biology clearly validate the expectation that we will be able to answer such questions in the near future.
- The latest developments are propelled by advances in laser technology.
- It failed to react quickly to international developments and advances in relevant fields.
- Our aim is to ensure that these services are readily accessible through use of the latest developments and advances in technology.
- There have been striking advances in plant developmental biology in recent times, and some unique and important features have emerged.
- Drug delivery systems are needed to exploit many of the drugs developed from advances in molecular biology.
- It has a special significance, too, for my brother and I who basically marked our childhood development by advances in video game technology.
- Scientific advances in diagnostic tools make it possible for experts to identify new diseases more quickly than anyone could have done in the past.
- That scientific breakthrough enabled advances in tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment which have now saved millions of lives.
- The development has implications for advances in lithographic techniques.
Synonyms breakthrough, development, step forward, step in the right direction, leap, quantum leap, find, finding, discovery, invention, success - 2.1 An increase or rise in amount, value, or price.
bond prices posted vigorous advances Example sentencesExamples - Animal carcass weights also indicate advances, with the increase in size of lambs and calves the best indicators of productivity improvements.
- Another piece of information that I can share with you on my seasonal gold work has to do with the price advances of the seasonal cycle.
- The advance in prices increased both government expenditures and debt.
- As our chart shows, the big advance in stock prices came about in the last quarter of the twentieth century - but that period is unique and, possibly, the exception rather than the rule.
- The mere laborer has thus no more interest in the general advance of productive power than the Cuban slave had in the advance in the price of sugar.
- Ultimately they brought out enough nuts to put the market in an oversupply position and the price advance came to a screeching halt and slowly but surely the market started to inch its way down.
- Looking back, we now understand how the system was working: honest companies posted moderate growth and moderate stock price advances.
Synonyms increase, rise, upturn, upsurge, upswing, growth, boom, boost, elevation, escalation, augmentation
3An amount of money paid before it is due or for work only partly completed. the author was paid a $250,000 advance I asked for an advance on next month's salary Example sentencesExamples - As I recall, he was in a similar situation and was forced, because of the House ethics rules, to not end up accepting the advance on the book.
- During meetings he was often a bit drunk, and afterwards in Paris I saw him come to their apartment for an advance on the travel money due him, red-eyed, with a three-day beard.
- The next morning Nataraj asked for an advance on his salary to buy rice, and kerosene for the little stove we provide. I gave it to him.
- Can they get an advance on their pay and turn in the rent money?
- The advance on a book, except for a few hundred authors internationally, tends to be not very much.
- It might entail giving an artist an advance on anticipated sales from either a forthcoming exhibition, or for works directly from the artist's studio.
- If you receive a bonus payment, which is essentially an advance on your royalties, that will be separate property.
- After spending a night in jail, he had managed to find a job moving boxes at a local warehouse, and had been able to convince the foreman into an advance on his first paycheck so he could secure a place to live.
- She received a fair advance on the books - £250,000, people say.
- People could gamble without panicking and planning to re-mortgage their home, or dashing out to get an advance on their paycheck from the corner money store.
- I spent my book advance on a motorboat and about two months later it blew up.
- Most authors are paid an advance on royalties, but never make much, if anything, on actual royalties because the sales of the book never add up that far.
- University presses still compete for many monographs, including revised dissertations, and, contrary to this belief, they pay advances for a significant number of them.
- In order to help him complete the book in a more relevant time frame, his advance has been increased.
- A man can lose a contract from publishers by spending their advance on finishing a book for another publisher.
- In return for an advance on future royalties, the IPC demanded an expansion of the territories under concession from 192 to 35,000 square miles.
- It is approaching six figures, including the advance on my new book.
- I've just got a good advance on a book, my first income for three months.
- He has even taken advances on his salary, and loans just to make ends meet.
- In many cases a child is sold into slavery as a result of a labor contract that his or her parents have signed into or in exchange for a sum of money that is often described as an advance on wages.
- It was the first property he owned and characteristically he bought it with borrowed money, half the purchase price coming from an advance paid by his publisher for a poem of which he hadn't yet written a line.
Synonyms down payment, advance against royalty, deposit, retainer, prepayment, front money, money up front - 3.1 A loan.
Example sentencesExamples - Total assets increased by $5.2 billion or 16 per cent due principally to strong growth in loans and advances.
- Because its revenues do not cover all its costs, the utility has had to obtain working capital from short-term bank advances.
- Included in Lay's figures is a whopping $81.5 million in loan advances, which were mostly repaid in stock, and which are worth next to nothing today.
- Disbursal of advances, particularly house and car loans, appears to have become a priority for bankers, who are now willing to reach out to public more aggressively.
- This enables borrowers to get 90% of their mortgage delivered as a cash advance - a major bonus when you need to splash out on land and materials.
- Whereas a standard home loan depends on your earnings, a buy-to-let advance is based on rental potential.
- It was a Motion for the Senate to approve that the Minister for Finance borrow by means of advances, sums not exceeding $25 million from commercial banks.
- The bank's loan and advances portfolio registered 42 per cent growth, reaching the level of K79.55 billion.
- We will be running a very small deficit, much of which will be used to finance such things as, for example, student loan advances, which are an asset in terms of net debt.
- Day after day, my wife and I receive unsolicited offers for credit cards, home equity loans and cash advances.
- In practice the conveyance, the creation of the mortgage and the payment over of the mortgage advance will all have to take place on the same day.
- The relationship between those two companies was one of support in terms of loan advances, right throughout the history of that 20 year operation.
- It was stressed that the decision to close the agency will have no impact on terms and conditions of savings accounts, current accounts, mortgages or advances held by customers.
- Against that background, the jury ought to have been directed that, unless satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that the advances were not loans, the appellant was entitled to be acquitted.
- For smaller loans, credit unions may be happy to make advances, but only after you have built up an acceptable level of savings with the organisation.
- With regard to the $62,000 advance, both she and her mother are adamant that the advance was a loan to the couple to enable their purchase of the matrimonial home.
- The financial sector has also borrowed $437 billion of ‘other loans and advances.’
- In the case of most loans to consumers, and for smaller commercial loans, the advance is usually credited forthwith to the borrower's current account and stands at his disposal at any time.
- The report only considers further advances on existing mortgages taken out to release equity and secured personal loans.
- All other conditions to the loan advance have been, or will in the ordinary course be met.
4usually advancesAn approach made to someone, typically with the aim of initiating a sexual encounter. women accused him of making improper advances Example sentencesExamples - Being such an immature age, he also succumbed to the advances of other women while he was away, which ended the marriage after just two years.
- Dr Langton said it was against medical ethical principles for a doctor to make sexual advances towards a patient.
- The man told a Los Angeles jury that he never made advances to the woman, 36, who once ran his West Coast office.
- Later, however, there's a brief, uncomfortable scene where Liza goes on a date with Harvey and he rejects her sexual advances.
- But during his trial, he claimed after he picked up the young woman she made advances to him.
- Although only 20 years old, Hope has already started making amorous advances to Cathay.
- The California Fair Employment and Housing Act defines unwelcome sexual advances of an employer toward an employee of the same sex as unlawful sexual harassment.
- When two men pulled up in a station wagon, the girls rebuffed their sexual advances.
- The pair have bonded as friends, after he snubbed her amorous advances.
- We also had retraining, if that's the word, in sexual and social behaviours because many of these people appeared, at least to us, to be deficient in making sexual advances to women.
- They may also have the expectation that alcohol makes it easier to make sexual advances, and thus they may use alcohol intentionally for achieving such a purpose.
- Therefore, rejections of sexual advances may be seen as inappropriate and may be ignored.
- Meanwhile, an alarming new survey by the University of Huddersfield has shown that more than one in five children have been the victim of unwanted sexual advances outside their home.
- According to the report, at least eight patients alleged he made sexual advances towards them over two decades from 1969.
- She has also claimed to gardaí that during her time at the school, the teacher made advances to one of her friends, who managed to get away.
- When she became 16, she declared her detestation of him and said that he had again made advances to her.
- At times, workers are exposed to sexual comments or advances on the part of a client or family member.
- Some of the men reportedly made indecent advances to women Navy officers staying at the same hotel.
- Gawain is visited by the lord's wife again; they exchange courtly words again all morning, Gawain parries her ever more forward advances.
- I chuckled, that was just the kind of answer Caitlyn would give me each time I tried to make an advance on her.
Synonyms sexual approaches, overtures, moves
adjectiveədˈvansədˈvæns Done, sent, or supplied beforehand. Example sentencesExamples - He gave me advance notice that he was coming back to London, which he did last week - but I only found out last Sunday.
- Art theft was a serious business for Hitler: even before occupying Holland, he sent an advance team to identify the most desirable collections.
- Or did the author send the manuscript or advance copies to select friends and admirers with a request for some publicity?
- He just sent me an advance copy of the second black and white Annual.
- These entries in the race would find advance supplies along their routes, including guaranteed petrol caches.
- Most taxpayers who were eligible for the advance payment received a notice from the taxation office shortly before they got their check.
- Global Volunteers does not, as a matter of course, send community hosts advance checks for supplies.
- But they also have the effect of preventing the customer from getting the loan quickly, especially since the charge document has to be complete in all respects before the advance copy is sent.
- And obviously, with an earthquake, you do not get advance notice.
- These regulations should be extended to cover all insurances with advance notice of 10 weeks minimum applying.
- Motorists and residents will be given advance notice and more information nearer the time.
- For those who've asked for advance notice, I'll be on the Lehrer News Hour Tuesday evening.
- A number of advance copies were sent to the Jesuits at La Flèche, but with little result.
- It will use advance passenger information supplied by airlines before their arrival ‘to screen and record individuals as they enter and leave the UK’.
- Britain had to give advance notice of the questions it wanted to ask.
- Be prepared to supply the speakers' advance staff with a list of briefing attendees several days before the session.
- He was one of the first Indian publishers to send books abroad without asking for advance payment.
- I could send you an advance version of the book, and you could do a review or a related article.
- The above paragraph, by the way, is written in a week when a leading publisher announced an advance payment of 500,000 to a previously unpublished author.
- Did you send an advance group to take care of you once you arrive?
Synonyms preliminary, leading, forward, foremost, at the fore, sent ahead, sent on ahead, first, exploratory, explorative, pilot, vanguard, test, trial early, previous, prior, beforehand
Phrases you need to book weeks in advance Example sentencesExamples - If you know what you are going to buy in advance, ring ahead to check availability.
- I had the impression that guest speaking gigs at Harvard were booked well in advance.
- If booking things weeks in advance is the only way to get in, that's what we do.
- The travel agent told me that there are only so many cheap seats, and you have to book well in advance to get one.
- A range of massage and other treatments can be booked in advance for an extra charge.
- The salad can be prepared hours in advance and the champagne poured over just before serving.
- Those lucky enough to be able to book well in advance can dive at the Island of Cabrera.
- That'll teach us to be the only people in Dallas who bothered to book a table in advance and order a meal.
- I said he should come and stay but warned him to make sure he booked far in advance.
- Owners book their dogs into the hotel in advance for anything from half a day to full-time.
- Postal votes have been available in the town before, but voters had to apply in advance.
- Hardwick airfield is on private property, so you need to arrange your visit in advance.
- It could take half an hour to reach this temperature, so do it well in advance.
- So popular has it proved that you have to book days in advance to be sure of getting in.
- You are advised to book in advance or turn up early because tickets sell-out quickly.
- Fifteen is one of the most sought after venues in the capital and is booked up months in advance.
- Space for bicycles is limited on Scotrail trains, and so book a place in advance.
- The fares must include two nights or a Saturday night and be booked seven days in advance.
- Some free or cheap accommodation will be available to people booking in advance.
- Book a taxi home well in advance as this is the busiest time of year for taxi drivers.
Synonyms beforehand, before, ahead of time, earlier, previously, in readiness
Ahead of in time or space; before. we went on ahead in advance of the main group Example sentencesExamples - However, he confirmed that negotiations in advance of May 21's crunch vote had taken place.
- Volunteers have then been given the necessary training to use the machines in advance of an ambulance arriving.
- Modern logic is far in advance of the logic of Aristotle and has overcome some of the limitations.
- In relation to the latter, it was decided to complete all developments in advance of the opening.
- Please note all items should be sent well in advance of date of publication.
- There have been a string of similar stories that have exploded in advance of honours proclamations in recent years.
- Swindon will make the transfer next month well in advance of the national deadline of January 1.
- We would use the current weakness to build a position in advance of a recovery in passenger numbers in 2006.
- According to Football League rules, a club has to apply some four weeks in advance of the fixture to change its date.
- One of her cheap tricks is to bring out your review two weeks in advance of publication.
- Ask for the report to be in your hands well in advance of the sale.
- Now, if you feel strongly enough about it, you can be in advance of trends once you have your own home and responsibility for it.
- The album will be on sale at the gig, with a limited edition CD cover in advance of the real packaging early next year.
- First Minister, you asked for a briefing note in advance of meetings with your ministerial team.
- A party was held at the home yesterday in advance of her birthday, and her family were taking her out for dinner tonight.
- This evening I'm off to the final dress rehearsal in advance of tomorrows grand finale.
- Several practice sessions will run in advance of two qualifying sessions to set the grid for the first two races.
- Try to start making childcare arrangements well in advance of when you need them.
- The effect, however, is often to gag councillors from speaking out in advance of a planning committee.
- It will also ease existing legal barriers to a newspaper apologising in advance of legal action.
Synonyms before, until, till, up to, previous to, earlier than, preceding, leading up to, in advance of, ahead of, ante-, pre-
Origin Middle English: from Old French avance (noun), avancer (verb), from late Latin abante ‘in front’, from ab ‘from’ + ante ‘before’. The initial a- was erroneously assimilated to ad- in the 16th century. |